Special Terms of Service for WordPress
WordPress.com Sites and Accounts
WordPress.com allows you to create great sites and blogs, and we will be happy if you use it. A WordPress.com account also allows you to log in to some of our Services.
The main WordPress.com service is free, and we offer paid plans for advanced features such as a custom domain name, additional storage and access to premium themes. Our service is designed to provide you with the greatest possible control and ownership of what is happening on your site, and to encourage you to freely express your opinion. You are the owner of all the content that you publish on your site. However, be responsible for what you publish. In particular, make sure that none of the prohibited elements (such as spam, viruses, or serious threats of violence) appear on your website.
If you find a WordPress.com website that you believe violates these Terms, visit the dispute resolution and reporting page.
Your WordPress.com site. If you are creating a site on WordPress.com, you can use a subdomain owned by Automattic, for example, example.wordpress.com or Mollys.food.blog. You should not participate in “squatting on a domain”, require an unreasonable number of subdomains (as we have determined) or sell access to any subdomains.
License. By submitting Content to Automattic for inclusion on your website, you grant Automattic a worldwide, free and non-exclusive license to breed, modify, adapt and publish Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distribution and promotion. Your website. This license also allows Automattic to make any publicly available Content available to third parties selected by Automattic (for example, through Firehose) so that these third parties can analyze and distribute (but not publicly display) the Content through their services.
You also give other WordPress.com users permission to share your Content on other WordPress.com websites and add your own Content to it (otherwise, “overwrite” your Content), provided that they use only part of your post and you give confirm that you are the original author by linking to your website (the WordPress.com chat feature does this automatically!).
Removing content. If you remove Content, we will use reasonable efforts to remove it from public viewing (or in the case of a private website, from viewing by authorized visitors) on WordPress.com, but you acknowledge that caching or links to Content may not be immediately unavailable.
Internet traffic. We use a third-party company comScore, Inc. (“ComScore”) for measuring audience and using WordPress.com. By hosting your website on WordPress.com, you agree to assign Automattic traffic related to your website and you allow us to sign a Traffic Assignment Letter on your behalf for comScore audience measurement reports. Your website traffic will be included in Automattic. You understand that your site will not receive traffic credits in these reports, and you should not assign traffic to your site to any other party. If we or comScore require additional documents to prove ownership of your site or domain name, you agree to use reasonable efforts to satisfy such requests.
Prohibited use. By using WordPress.com, you represent and warrant that your Content and behavior do not violate the User Guides.
HTTPS
Https By default, we offer free HTTPS on all WordPress.com websites, including custom domains, using Let Encrypt. By registering and using your own domain on WordPress.com, you allow us to act on behalf of the domain owner (for example, requesting the necessary certificates) for the sole purpose of providing HTTPS on your website.Ads. We reserve the right to display ads on your website if you have not purchased a plan to remove ads.
Attribution We reserve the right to display the text of the link or link in the footer or on the toolbar of your site, for example, attributing WordPress.com or the author of the theme. Some of these attributes cannot be changed or deleted. For more information on how these attributes may look, and under what circumstances (if any) they can be changed or deleted, please visit our admin panel and action panel support page.
Friends WP.com Themes. By activating the partner’s topic from the WP.com Friends section of our topic catalog, you agree to the terms of service of this partner. You can refuse the terms of service at any time by disabling the partner topic.
Domain names.
We act as a registrar and also work with third-party registrars to provide domain name services. When anyone registers a domain name on WordPress.com or transfer an existing domain name to WordPress.com.
Registration Agreement
The policies of the corresponding registry are applied and you become bound by the terms and conditions of the respective registrar, either the Domain Name Registration Agreement or the key. -Systems GmbH Registration Agreement, Tucows Domain Inc. The Registration Agreement or this Domain Name Registration Agreement in the announcement of these Terms. When registering a domain, you receive and agree to the corresponding domain registration agreement. If you have not noticed this, you can watch it at any time. This page provides instructions on how to determine which domain registration agreements apply to you and your domains. These registrar terms are incorporated into these Terms by reference.
Your use of the domain name is also governed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) policies. You can read about your rights and obligations as the owner of a domain under the ICANN Registrar Accreditation Agreement and the domain name registration in general.
For more information about what happens during the domain’s expiration process, and how we can notify you of the domain’s expiration, see the domain expiration page.
Please refer to the pricing and available domain domains page for detailed information on domain registration, renewal and renewal fees.
When you register a domain name, you must provide complete and accurate registration information. In most cases, the contact information you provide during the registration process will be used as your administrative contact, technical contact, and billing contact. This contact information may be updated at any time.
If your domain name registration information is different from your WordPress.com account holder information, we consider that the administrative contact in the domain’s WHOIS records (the contact information provided on WordPress.com as part of the domain registration process) is the domain owner, with full control of the domain.